Vacation Cruising in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1884. First printing. Black and white drawings. Pictorial cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 262 pages.
An important and very readable account of a cruise in the Chesapeake Bay and its environs in the summer of 1883. Joseph Rothrock was a professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania and is considered the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania.
The Chesapeake Bay was viewed as a commercial fishery rather than a waterway for pleasure boating through the 19th century, making this an uncommon perspective for the time.
Ref: TOY #1394; MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 118; PRATT - EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND #42.
Very good. Bound in cocoa brown cloth over boards with spine stamped in gilt and black, upper board stamped in three colors with an illustration of a yacht. Prior owner name dated 1887 pencilled on front free endpaper.
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